つめ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of つめ – see the following entries.
【爪】S
[noun] nail; claw
【詰め】
[noun] stuffing, packing
[noun] end (esp. the foot of a bridge)
[noun] (shogi, figurative) endgame
[noun] ellipsis of 煮詰め: sweet eel sauce
[noun] lowest-ranking guest at a tea ceremony​
[noun] tea master
[noun] (archaic) middle-aged women
[noun] (typography) spacing of glyphs based on a percentage of their sidebearings, rather than a fixed unit or amount as used for kerning and tracking, which allows for proportional spacing of multiple glyphs at once
[verb] imperfective and stem (or continuative) forms of 詰める (tsumeru) [ichidan]
(This term, つめ (tsume), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as つめ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as つめ.)
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